The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before.… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Our economic system treats environmental degradation as an externalitya cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into… — Barry Commoner Copy Share
